





This little folder is to acquaint you with the aims and 
activities of the 

NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR 
THE PROMOTION OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION 



It was founded in November, 1906, by 



Milton P. Higgins 

Prea. Norton Co., Worcester, Mass. 

Chas. R. Richards 

Director Cooper Union, New York 

Henry S. Pritchett 

Free. Carnegie Foundation, New York 



M. W. Alexander 

Gen. Electric Co., Lynn, Mass. 

James P. Haney 

Director of Art, High Schools, New 
York 

Robert A. Woods 

Director South Bind House, Boston 
Mass. 



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"^""^ ^ PROSPECTUS 

OF THE 

NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR 
THE PROMOTION OF 
INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION 

1910 



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MAR 15 \9t6 



vo\J^This little folder is to acquaint you with the aims and 
' ^^ activities of the 

" NATIONAL SOCIETY FOR 

THE PROMOTION OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION 



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It was founded in November, 1906, by 
Milton P. Higgins M. W. Alexander 

Pres. 'Norton Co., Worcester, Mass. Gen. Electric Co., Lynn, Mass. 



Chas. R. Richards 



Director Cooper Union, New York York 

^ _ Robert A 

NRY S. PrITCHETT Directoi 

Pres. Carnegie Foundation, New York Mass. 



James P. Haney 

Director of Art, High Sclaools, New 



^ ^ Robert A. Woods 

Henry S. PrITCHETT Director South End House, Boston 



What the organization aims to do for Society: 

1. To awaken public interest in the pressing need for in- 
telligent and trained workers in our industries — a need which 
traditional methods do not meet. 

2. To foster expert studies on means of overcoming this 
deficiency, and to provide a forum for the discussion of practical 
difficulties. 

3. To bring about legislative action in the various states 
that will provide more adequate opportunities for industrial 



What the organization aims to do for its Members: 

1. To send out Bulletins at frequent intervals showing them 
what advances in industrial education are being made through 
legislation and through practical experiment. 

2. To make reports of investigations relating to various 
specific phases of this field. 

3. To put at their disposal an account of what other coun- 
tries than our own are doing in industrial training. 



The Officers of the Society are: 
President - - - - Chas. R. Richards 

Director Cooper Union, New York 

Vice-President - - - . J. W. Lieb, Jr. 

New York Edison Company, New York 

Treasurer _ . . _ Frederic B. Pratt 

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N. Y. 

Secretary - - - Edward H. Reisner 

Teachers College, New York 

Co-operating with the above on the Executive Committee 
are Messrs. Alexander C. Humphreys, Chas. S. Howe, John 
Golden, J. W. Ferguson and Arthur L. Williston. 



Our present membership is as follows: 

Life 13 

Sustaining 31 

Active 930 

( Active Membership, $2.00 per annum. 
Dues: ■< Sustaining Membership, $25.00 per annum. 
( Life Membership, $250.00. 

There are State Branches, requiring a membership of fifty, 
in the following States: 

Alabama New York 

Georgia Ohio 

Indiana Pennsylvania 

Massachusetts Rhode Island 

Montana Virginia 



There are State Committees in sixteen other States. 

Membership in a State Branch includes Membership in the 
National Society; and vice-versa. 



Three annual conventions of the Society have been held at 
the following times and places: 

Chicago, January 23-25, 1908. 
Atlanta, November 19-21, 1908. 
Milwaukee, December 2-4, 1909. 

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The following regular Bulletins have been distributed to 
members during the three years of the existence of the Society. 

No. 1, Organization Meeting of the Society. 

No. 2, Selected Bibliography on Industrial Education. 

No. 3, A Symposium on Industrial Education. 

No. 4, Industrial Training for Women. 

No. 5, Proceedings of First Annual Meeting, Chicago, Part I. 

No. 6, Proceedings of First Annual Meeting, Chicago, Part II. 

No. 7, Circular of Information. 

No. 8, Education of Workers in the Shoe Industry. 



No. 9, Proceedings of Second Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 1908. 
No. 10, Proceedings of Third Annual Meeting, Milwaukee, 1909. 



The following special publications have been procured from 
outside sources and distributed free of charge to members. 

Report of the Massachusetts Commission on Industrial Educa- 
tion, 1908. 
New York State Education Department, Bulletin on General 



Industrial and Trades Schools, 1908, prepared by Arthur D. 
Dean. 

*'The Apprenticeship System in its Relation to Industrial Educa- 
tion," by Carroll D. Wright, Bulletin U. S. Bureau of Edu- 
cation. 

Addresses by Andrew D. Draper, Commissioner of Education, 
Bulletin New York State Education Department, 1908. 

Industrial Education. The Annals of the American Academy of 
Political and Social Science, Vol. XXXIII, No. 1, 1909. 

Report of the Special Committee on Industrial Education of the 
American Federation of Labor, 1909. 

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Bulletins for 1910: 

(1). Report of Milwaukee Convention. (Issued.) 

(2). Directory of Trade, Industrial and Vocational Schools 
in the United vStates. 

(3). Legislation relating to Industrial Education in various 
States. 

(4). The Independent Industrial Schools of Massachusetts. 

(5). Apprenticeship Schools. 

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''For at least a generation we have been waking to the knowl- 
edge that there must be additional education beyond that provided 
in the public schools as it is managed today. Our school system 
has hitherto been well nigh wholly lacking on the side of industrial 
training, of the training which fits a man for the shop and the 
farm. This is a most serious lack, for no one can look at the 
peoples of mankind as they stand at present mthout realizing 

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that industrial training is one of the most potent factors in national 
development. We of the United States must develop a system 
under which each individual citizen shall be trained so as to be 
effective individually as an economic unit, and fit to be organized 
with his fellows so that he and they can work in efficient fashion 
together. This question is vital to our future progress, and pub- 
lic attention should be focussed upon it. Surely it is eminently in 
accord with the principles of our democratic life that we should 
furnish the highest average industrial training for the ordinary 
skilled workman. But it is a curious thing that in industrial 

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training we have tended to devote oxir energies to producing 
high-grade men at the top rather than in the ranks. Our en- 
gineering schools, for instance, compare favorably with the best 
in Europe, whereas we have done almost nothing to equip the 
private soldiers of the industrial army — the mechanic, the 
metal worker, the carpenter. Indeed, too often our schools 
train away from the shop and the forge; and this fact 
together with the abandonment of the old apprentice system, 
has resulted in such an absence of facilities for providing 
trained journeymen that in many of our trades most of the 

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recruits among workmen are foreigners. Surely this means that 
there must be some systematic method provided for training 
young men in the trades, and that this must be co-ordinated with 
the public school system. No industrial school can turn out a 
finished journeyman; but it can furnish the material out of which 
a finished journeyman can be made, just as an engineering school 
furnishes the training which enables its graduates speedily to 
become engineers." 

THEODORE ROOSEVELT. 



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